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    WOMEN IN ITALY. 41

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    Women In Italy. 41

    WOMEN IN ITALY . 41

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/41/